Fun With Email
This part of my website is the result of my being bored (actually the whole thing is a result of my being bored) and sending emails out to folks asking questions. Most of the time I dont get a response, but here are the ones that i have gotten responses to....
I was wondering one day if the batmobile was a standard or manual transmission, so I wrote to a world renowned batmobile expert to pose the question...
Dear Batmobile expert guy
I recently visited your page and found it very interesting as I am also
a
big fan of Batman. I have been trying to find out whether or not the
batmobile is a standard or automatic, without much success. I have also
been attempting to lick my elbow, again without much success. I thought that
since you are such an expert on Batman, and seem to have such extensive
knowledge of the Batmobile and all its functions, that you might be able to
give me the answer to my question. Please write back soon.
Thank you.
Bob
... and here's the response i got...
automatic-
"The Futura was built way back in the Fifties," Barris recalls
today, "It's
not a production car. The Futura was the product of designer William
Schmidt and the car was released to me when I was with the Ford Custom
Caravan. I would take these experimental cars that come from the division
and use them for film work In this case, I wanted to use the Futura because
it already had the double bubbles. All I had to do was remove a part of the
central section and keep the fore and aft. Then I put in the arches, lights
and everything else. Using the Futura enabled me to save a lot of time and
I only had three weeks to build the car!'' Other work on the car included
extending the drive train eleven inches to compensate for the specially
sculpted 23 foot aerodynamic' body, The engine is a moon-equipt 429 racing
Ford, with dual Granitelli Paxton turbo chargers [correction, SUPER
chargers] and nitro oxide thrust control. It also has a hydro-trans mounted
into a locked positraction rear end.
David Sutton
The 1966 Batman TV Trivia Site
you can check out his website here
Stay tuned for more exciting fun with email!! This is the only response that I've gotten so far, but hopefully there's more on the way:)
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